Screen LibraryChildren in the information age : opportunities for creativity, innovation, and new activities : selected papers from the second international conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-23 May 1987 /
Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities contains selected papers from the Second International Conference and Exhibition """"Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities, "&q...
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, England ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1988. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080364643 |
| Summary: |
Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities contains selected papers from the Second International Conference and Exhibition """"Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities, """" held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-23 May 1987. The contributions made by researchers at the conference covered topics such as the past, present, and future of school informatics in the USSR; the family computer boom and its implications for computer literacy; the new meanings of literacy related to new information and communi |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781483159027 1483159027 |
| Index Number: | LB1028 |
| CLC: | G434-532 |
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Front Cover; Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities; Copyright Page; Foreword; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. To Participants in the Second International Conference""Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities""; Chapter 2. A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future; 1. Technocentrism; 2. Scientism; 3. Educology; 4. Constructionism; Chapter 3. Conceptual Threads of Datalogy, Informatics and InformationTechnology; 0. BACKGROUND; 1. DEFINITIONS. 2. THREE CLUSTERS OF CONCEPTS3. DATALOGY; 4. INFORMATICS; 5. TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SCIENCES; 6. CONCLUSION; Chapter 4. School Informatics in the USSR: From Literacy to Culture; THE PAST; THE PRESENT; THE FUTURE; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. ""Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School or Home?""; Chapter 1. What Makes Family Computers so Much Fun?; Chapter II. The Seven Great Sins of Conventional Computer Education; Chapter III. Basic Strategy of Computer Literacy at Home; Chapter IV An Analysis of Housewives' Desire to Own and Learn How to Use Personal Computers. Chapter V. The Development of Kumon Coursewares for HousewivesChapter 6. Informatics In and Out of School; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. New Meanings of Literacy; INTRODUCTION; 1. ""Computer literacy"" as Part of Basic Education; 2. New Literacy -- Mapping Out an Idea and Its Derivatives.; 3. Concluding: Act; LITERATURE; Chapter 8. Computer Use in Education. Trends, Challenges and Opportunities; Chapter 9. Literacy in the Information Age; I. INTRODUCTION; II. WHAT IS LITERACY; III. THE INFORMATION AGE; IV. LITERACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE; V. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES. Chapter 10. Informatics in Education for Children -- The Indian Plan Experience and ProjectionsABSTRACT; PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA; THE CLASS PROJECT OF INDIA; PROBLEMS PECULIAR TO INDIA; THE CLASS CURRICULUM; THE INDIAN CHILD; THE ASSESSMENT OF THE CLASSPROJECT; THE RELEVANCE OF COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; THE NEED FOR INFORMATION-HANDLING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING; CONCLUSION:; REFERENCE; Chapter 11. On Cognitive Processes in Education. A Model for Use of Knowledge Based Systems in Education; INTRODUCTION. THREE SETS OF ASSUMPTIONSCATEGORIES OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES; OBJECTIVE TYPES OF INTERVENTION AS A FRAME-SETTING FOR COGNITIVE PROCESSES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS IN EDUCATION, A MEDIUM FOR REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE, AND A SPECIFICATION OF A DOMAIN; META-KNOWLEDGE AS A GOAL IN PEDAGOGY WITH NUTRITION SYSTEM AS A VEHICLE; APPENDX: DESCRIPTION OF KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM SHELL FOR CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS: DLH-MITSI; REFERENCES; Chapter 12. Computers and Measurement; INTRODUCTION; COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION; COMPUTERS AND INSTRUCTION; COMPUTERS FOR MEASUREMENT. |